Leeds

What You Need to Know Before You Go

Leeds is one of England's largest northern cities and thrills with its sheer aesthetics, thanks to a varied mix of 20th and 21st-century architecture that ranges from rows of elegant Victorian town houses to the towering contemporary Bridgewater Place skyscraper.

Within its buzzing core you'll find theatres, the Leeds Art Gallery and an electric mix of music scenes that have produced the Kaiser Chiefs and the Leeds Symphony Orchestra. The city also serves as the Gateway to the rolling hills, craggy moorland and historic stone villages of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, which offer some of England's prettiest country walks.